Centrists no longer understand a world they created. Their rose-tinted, erroneous nostalgia leaves them ill-equipped for the present and incapable of shaping the future.

My review of Anne Applebaum’s book ‘Twilight of Democracy’ for @tribunemagazine https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/08/why-centrists-no-longer-understand-the-world
Why Centrists No Longer Understand the World

As the world faces deep political crisis, the liberal intelligentsia is increasingly lost – trapped in nostalgia for a past that never was and failing to understand the damage caused by economic...

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/08/why-centrists-no-longer-understand-the-world
The war on terror was undertaken and underpinned by mass irrationality and state-sponsored conspiracy theories. Those who applauded at the time should think about that.
The war on terror was undertaken and underpinned by mass irrationality and state-sponsored conspiracy theories. Those who applauded at the time should think about that.
The war on terror was undertaken and underpinned by mass irrationality and state-sponsored conspiracy theories. Those who applauded at the time should think about that.
The ‘war on drugs’ - there since Nixon - is also built on lies, irrationality and conspiracism. This wasn’t an era of ‘evidence-based policy’, was it.
The ‘war on drugs’ - there since Nixon - is also built on lies, irrationality and conspiracism. This wasn’t an era of ‘evidence-based policy’, was it.
The ‘war on drugs’ - there since Nixon - is also built on lies, irrationality and conspiracism. This wasn’t an era of ‘evidence-based policy’, was it.
How are Reagan and Thatcher emblems of freedom and liberty when their politics so frequently overlap with today’s extreme right?

Trump is not a rejection of their politics, he’s a morbid symptom of their complete hegemony.
How are Reagan and Thatcher emblems of freedom and liberty when their politics so frequently overlap with today’s extreme right? Trump is not a rejection of their politics, he’s a morbid symptom of their complete hegemony.
How are Reagan and Thatcher emblems of freedom and liberty when their politics so frequently overlap with today’s extreme right? Trump is not a rejection of their politics, he’s a morbid symptom of their complete hegemony.
This is also why an alliance between the ‘centre’ and the left means very little substantively if it includes people like Applebaum and Frum. They made so many historic mistakes, don’t see them for what they are, have a poor analysis of the present and no strategy for the future.
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